Tales from FAR Manor

B1-66er has a rat problem , perhaps brought on by too many years of not cleaning up his apartment. He has, as part of his rat extermination ...

Daughter Dearest told me this morning that she’d gotten the word: she made All-State Chorus this year! w00T!

I think this is going to be stuck in my head for a while. Click the link that says "This Song" if you dare. You risk getting it s...

Daughter Dearest managed to get this shot somehow. Things happen quick when you're in a car, and the time it takes the dig the camera ou...

In my mind’s eye, I see a custodian bringing a dusty box out of some nondescript storage room. A whole case of Industrial-strength Whoop-As...

Current music: 1.fm Trance It used to be that moving in the office was something you started hearing about long before it actually happened....

Yeesh, Wednesday already? So I had just pulled into church for choir practice this evening, when I got a phone call. The Boy’s number came u...

At 4 a.m., I was only slightly awakened by Mrs. Fetched. "Farf." As anyone still 90% asleep would, I answered, "Unh." &q...

The guy who would do the work on my Civic finally got around to coughing up an estimate yesterday. He thinks he can put the back bumper bac...

A handful of things that didn’t necessary merit their own posts… Fury asked for a close-up of the yellow flowers growing all over the mano...

Mrs. Fetched’s mom was given a small double-wide with water damage, which she plans to set up as a vacation rental. For now, though, it’s a ...

Yet another non-slackerly weekend, with Mrs. Fetched volunteering me to help out the church at the community yard sale. Getting up at 6-some...

With the advent of cooler weather, the fall flowers (and weeds) are coming in. Some of the weeds are offering fairly decent bribes this time...

This is something that happened a couple of weeks ago. Indeed, it was almost 17 years to the day after the wreck that brought Daughter Deare...

When things happen, sometimes they happen quickly. Last week, M.A.E. started going out with some guy she met at work. This weekend, she wasn...

Hey at least Family Man had what he aptly calls a “slackerly weekend.” Me, I barely got a chance to do any work work, let alone slacking. M...

Wednesday, IT figured out what the last problem was setting up my MacBook Pro and brought it over. Sweeeeeet. I spent part of yesterday and ...

The Boy has probably borrowed my car for the last time. He told me he would be home from band practice by 11, and I told him that if he wasn...

My first day back at work went mostly quietly. The IT peeps are holding onto my new computer, claiming they can’t get Sametime (a Lotus prop...

Not the way I would prefer to go… even back to FAR Manor. Come back later and check below this post — I’ll be backdating posts I started ove...

Mom’s tennis match went about twice as long as she expected, so she wasn’t really up for a ride. I filled a couple of water bottles this tim...

For reasons having little to do with the guest beds, I’ve again started waking up at night since I’ve been down here. Part of it is the less...

While the northern part of Planet Georgia is starting to slip (with a sigh of relief) into fall, it’s still summer in points south. This bec...

I forgot to mention why there are 20kg weights on the floor, and slipped in another comment here & there. We ended up checking out Frida...

Mrs. Fetched has joined me here in the refuge. As I am typing this, she is fast asleep in the bedroom after being up all night supervising t...

On the subject of what day it is: Keith Oibermann has said all that needs to be said. I shall otherwise remain silent. Evening on the deck p...

The condo I’m staying in is small, but has the essentials for a week: two bedrooms, a bath, full kitchen, and the living area shown here. I’...

On GA115 between Dahlonega and Cleveland GA.

Back at FAR Manor for a couple of hours. Daughter Dearest isn’t working today, so I came back early to get the vacation posts in. Be sure to...

The second day of vacation is starting out tons better than the first. For the first time in I don’t remember, I slept the entire night thro...

Note: Depending on when I can find a tube (the Internet is a series of tubes , you know), these posts may appear later than their dates. I&#...

The community yard sale was yesterday. We finally stopped talking about it and actually took a pile of stuff over there to sell. After booth...

I seem to have lost your phone number. Gimme a call when you get this, OK?

Lordy, my cellphone camera bites. But I refuse to be shackled to Stinkular for two more years. Anyway...

Standing outside at the in-laws’ this evening, after eating watermelon: Mrs. Fetched, Daughter Dearest, me, and Mrs. Fetched’s mom. And a bu...

A few bits and bobs that don’t merit their own posts… *** A guy at an OEM company we’re dealing with at work goes by the name of “Raining Ca...

Continued from Part III (start at Part I ) IV. The Passives (reprise) “Babe?” “Yeah?” “Did you ever think things would be… I don’t know… dif...

Sometimes, following links takes you to some odd places. This particular oddity odyssey started with a MacDevCenter article , which led O’R...

No, not The Boy, although he was gone for a couple of days. I’m talking about this guy: There’s a lot of weird bugs in the world, but to me...

About a week ago, I complained about our tendency as tech writers to become slaves to our tools . Tonight I provide a counter-example — what...

Shortly after getting home from work on Wednesday, Mrs. Fetched told me a tale of… “whoa.” A while back, some friends of ours moved out of a...

The last time we saw Lobster in this chronicle, back in May, he had: no wheels (lost his truck to Big V); not much education; no permanent ...

I poured my self a generous helping of rum over crushed ice, and added enough grapefruit juice to fill the glass. But I’m not wasted as lon...

[This list is now obsolete. Please refer to the current list .] To make this blog easier to write (and read), I’m considering using a series...

I don’t think it broke 75 here today — it has been overcast all day, except when it was pouring down rain. It was kind of nice to get a day ...